Moral absolutes : tradition, revision, and truth /
Finnis, John.
Moral absolutes : tradition, revision, and truth / John Finnis. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, (c)1991. - 1 online resource (vi, 113 pages) - - The Michael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ; 1988 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents -- Foreword -- I. Foundations -- 1. Exceptionless moral norms: few but strategic -- 2. Witnessed to by faith -- 3. Part of the theology of human fulfillment -- 4. Rejected when human replaces divine providence -- 5. No narrowing of horizons -- 6. Choice, reflexivity, and proportionalism -- 7. Protecting changeless aspects of human fulfillment -- 8. Negative norms but positive and revelatory -- 9. Rejection: some motivations and implications -- II. Clarifications -- 1. Intrinsece mala: acts always wrong, but not by definition 2. Specified neither evaluatively nor physically / 4. Worse than suffering wrong -- 5. Proportionalist justifications: incoherent with rationally motivated free choice -- 6. The central case: intentional harm, always unreasonable -- 7. Deadly defense and death penalty: not necessarily proportionalist -- III. Christian Witness -- 1. Free choice: a morally decisive reality -- 2. Evil: not to be chosen that good may come -- 3. Actions: morally specified by their objects (intentions) behaviorally3. Opposed to reason and integral human fulfillment -- 4. Intending human harm: never acceptable for God or man5. Counterexamples -- 6. Responsibility for side effects: other principles and norms -- IV. Challenge and Response -- 1. Contraception and the general denial of absolutes -- 2. Historical and ecclesiological skirmishes -- 3. The main action: in philosophical theology -- 4. Prudence misconceived: the absolutes aesthetically dissolved -- 5. A summary conclusion -- Index
Moral Absolutes sets forth a vigorous but careful critique of much recent work in moral theology. It is illustrated with examples from the most controversial aspects of Christian moral doctrine, and a frank account is given of the roots of the upheaval in Roman Catholic moral theology in and after the 1960s.
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9780813220475
Catholic Church--Doctrines.
Christian ethics--Catholic authors.
Ethical relativism.
Ethical relativism--Controversial literature.
Catholic Church Doctrines Christian ethics Catholic authors Ethical relativism
Electronic Books.
BJ1249 / .M673 1991
Moral absolutes : tradition, revision, and truth / John Finnis. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, (c)1991. - 1 online resource (vi, 113 pages) - - The Michael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ; 1988 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents -- Foreword -- I. Foundations -- 1. Exceptionless moral norms: few but strategic -- 2. Witnessed to by faith -- 3. Part of the theology of human fulfillment -- 4. Rejected when human replaces divine providence -- 5. No narrowing of horizons -- 6. Choice, reflexivity, and proportionalism -- 7. Protecting changeless aspects of human fulfillment -- 8. Negative norms but positive and revelatory -- 9. Rejection: some motivations and implications -- II. Clarifications -- 1. Intrinsece mala: acts always wrong, but not by definition 2. Specified neither evaluatively nor physically / 4. Worse than suffering wrong -- 5. Proportionalist justifications: incoherent with rationally motivated free choice -- 6. The central case: intentional harm, always unreasonable -- 7. Deadly defense and death penalty: not necessarily proportionalist -- III. Christian Witness -- 1. Free choice: a morally decisive reality -- 2. Evil: not to be chosen that good may come -- 3. Actions: morally specified by their objects (intentions) behaviorally3. Opposed to reason and integral human fulfillment -- 4. Intending human harm: never acceptable for God or man5. Counterexamples -- 6. Responsibility for side effects: other principles and norms -- IV. Challenge and Response -- 1. Contraception and the general denial of absolutes -- 2. Historical and ecclesiological skirmishes -- 3. The main action: in philosophical theology -- 4. Prudence misconceived: the absolutes aesthetically dissolved -- 5. A summary conclusion -- Index
Moral Absolutes sets forth a vigorous but careful critique of much recent work in moral theology. It is illustrated with examples from the most controversial aspects of Christian moral doctrine, and a frank account is given of the roots of the upheaval in Roman Catholic moral theology in and after the 1960s.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780813220475
Catholic Church--Doctrines.
Christian ethics--Catholic authors.
Ethical relativism.
Ethical relativism--Controversial literature.
Catholic Church Doctrines Christian ethics Catholic authors Ethical relativism
Electronic Books.
BJ1249 / .M673 1991